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Generare Fieldwork

Collect soil. Help discover future medicines.

Collect a little soil on your outings. In the lab, Generare studies its microbes in search of new molecules.

Become a collectorExplore the map

—soil samples logged.

A lake surrounded by mountains and forest, photographed during a collection outing

Where will you collect?

Select a campaign or switch to list view. Small dots show approximate collection areas, not exact sampling locations.

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About this map

Each dot represents an approximate collection area and may group several samples. Exact locations are not shown. Overseas insets show main landmasses at different scales.

Map data: Etalab / IGN · 2025 ↗

Why we collect

Nature has so much more to give.

Nature has given us some of our most valuable medicines. Many come from microbes, from antibiotics to cancer treatments.

Discover why

97%

of the molecules bacteria could produce remain unexplored.

From the trail to the lab.

No scientific background needed. We guide you.

Hands gathering a soil sample into a bag

  1. Get ready

    We teach you the protocol and provide your collection kit.

  2. Explore and collect

    Gather a little soil and record its location in the app.

  3. Send to the lab

    Send your samples to our team for study in the lab.

Be part of the discovery.

Become a collector

Research organisations, anywhere in the world.

Partner with us

Generare’s research collaborations & support